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How She Really Does It: Secrets of Success from Stay-at-work Moms
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"A book that many mothers...might find to be a life-saver. Or, more accurately, a sanity-saver." (USA Today)
Yes, some women are opting out of their careers, taking an "off-ramp," and heading home to raise their babies. But millions of us cannot afford to make that choice. And millions more choose to work because we love our careers. So how are women holding on to financially necessary or stimulating and rewarding careers and still being engaged mothers?
Wendy Sachs, journalist and mother of two, set out to find what's really happening at the intersection of motherhood and work today. Based on her in-depth interviews with mothers from diverse backgrounds, How She Really Does It explores the creative and courageous ways in which stay-at- work moms are making it happen.
Here are the moms next door-as well as lawyers, doctors, entrepreneurs, fashion designers, journalists, and television personalities-who are navigating the everyday work/home conflicts, and, yes, dealing with the guilt. Through it all, they are empowered career women and caring, present mothers.
A modern working woman's survival guide, How She Really Does It will give you hope that even if you can't have it all, you can have at least some of it all of the time.
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not a how-to manual.......2007-06-25
At first, I was frustrated when reading this book because I thought it would give me tips on "how to really do it." But I am glad I kept reading because although the book does not offer hints on how to organize yourself or your house, it does tell you how different women approach their roles as mother and worker/professional. The inspirational stories in this book really helped me to see how choosing your mindset can make balancing family and work life easier.
Thank you Wendy Sachs - Much Less Guilt Now!.......2007-02-01
I highly recommend this book to any working OR stay at home mom. It has been such a refreshing read. Since I rarely get time to read it was a blessing that I saw the author on a morning news program and heard about her book. It has really lightened my mental load and made me realize that I am not the only working mom that struggles with the daily grind as well as the often self-induced guilt. Enjoy!
Excellent Book.......2006-04-11
Ms. Sachs absolutely gets it. The interviews and observations in her book really describe what I've been going through, trying to balance the two very important parts of my life. Who says we have to choose one over the other? Who says we have to figure it out all alone? Above all, this book proved to me that we're not alone and that there just might be strength in numbers. Thank you, Ms. Sachs! Keep it coming.
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Title: Professional mothers: they can be amateurs when it comes to raising children.(How She Really Does It: The Secrets of Success from Stay-at-Work Moms)(Book Review)
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Nicest aircrafts book I've never seen........2007-03-09
I think that everything has been said if you read the other reviews but it was not possible for me not to tell my happiness when I discover it in reality. I was relly surprised about the beautiful illustrations and the size of this book, it's simply HUGE !
A must-have for any aircraft enthusiast.
Best of the best..........2005-02-23
I bought this book new from the Smithsonian Museum bookstore when I was just a kid. Now some 20-odd years later it still sits on the shelf right behind my desk, and I still frequently comb through its pages with the same enthusiasm I had when it was new. I will never let this book out of my possesion.
It's so valuable to me I had to find another copy for my business partner and fellow R/C fanatic so that he wouldn't have to keep borrowing mine! ;D ...that's why I decided to drop my 2-cents in here.
If you are an airplane buff, or more importantly, if you have any passion for the top planes of WWII, this book is not optional. You MUST have it. Period. Once you open it, you will understand what I am saying.
Must Have for WWII Aviation Enthusiasts.......2001-11-08
If you enjoy WWII aircraft, and appreciate the breath taking detail and accuracy of Rikyu Watanabe illustrations, you must have this book. I found my copy 3 years ago at OshKosh, and have been offered (...)for it - no way was I parting with it. It is, without question, the finest piece of reference / art work on these 12 aircraft I have ever seen. Vet, IFR Priv. pilot, R/C aircraft modeler.
Incredible!.......2000-12-15
I'm a WWII airplanes enthsiast, and this book has filled all my expectations. The text, the scaled drawings, the fold-out panels, everithing is exceptional in this complete guide of WWII airplanes. The drawings of this book are incredibly detailed, and if you're meticulous, you'll never find a book like this. My grandfather was a WWII pilot and became nostalgic when he saw the plane he had flown.
Lots of nostalgia.......2000-07-04
In my opinion, the most beautiful book of WWII aircraft which has ever been published.
I have flown the F4U-5NL Bu.No. 124511 found in the picture on page 253 with Ens. Cawley's name on the side. He was one of our squadron mates in VC-4, NAS Atlantic City in the early 'fifties.
Brings back many fond memories. Highly recommended to all aviators and aviation enthusiasts.
J.D. Williams Lcdr. USNR (Ret)
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Scholars in the age of Charles Darwin, writes feminist scholar Barbara Gates, were of two minds about women: on one hand, they embodied "the restful responsiveness of nature" and were somehow closer to living in a state of nature than were men; on the other hand, by the very virtue of this naturalness, they were less capable of being truly civilized and educated. Despite this, generations of women labored to speak on nature's behalf and to study its ways; "denied formal higher education," Gates writes, "they also constituted large portions of the audience at public lectures on science and read whatever was available to them on the subject," including a large literature in popular science written by women. Gates recounts the lives of many important naturalists of the age, among them traveler and Africanist Mary Kingsley, independent scholar Arabella Buckley (who served as secretary to the eminent English geologist Sir Charles Lyell and was acquainted with many of the leading scientists of her time), eminent illustrator Jemima Blackburn, and antivivisectionist Frances Power Cobbe. Although these women are not well represented in standard histories of science, Gates demonstrates that their contributions to their contemporaries' understanding of the natural world were estimable indeed. --Gregory McNamee
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In Kindred Nature, Barbara T. Gates highlights the contributions of Victorian and Edwardian women to the study, protection, and writing of nature. Recovering their works from the misrepresentation they often faced at the time of their composition, Gates discusses not just well-known women like Beatrix Potter but also others—scientists, writers, gardeners, and illustrators—who are little known today.
Some of these women discovered previously unknown species, others wrote and illustrated natural histories or animal stories, and still others educated women, the working classes, and children about recent scientific advances. A number of women also played pivotal roles in the defense of animal rights by protesting overhunting, vivisection, and habitat destruction, even as they demanded their own rights to vote, work, and enter universities.
Kindred Nature shows the enormous impact Victorian and Edwardian women had on the natural sciences and the environmental movement, and on our own attitudes toward nature and human nature.
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Title: Kindred Nature: Victorian and Edwardian Women Embrace the Living World. (Book Reviews).(Book Review)
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In this collection of original puzzles, games, and codes a mathematical detective and puzzle-solver uncovers a plot that threatens the world. No sophisticated mathematical background is necessary to solve these challenges, which were inspired by the methods and thinking of researchers in computer science and mathematics. Solutions. 58 black-and-white illustrations.
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In the tradition of Sherlock Holmes, Dr. Ecco is one of the greatest sleuths of our time, a mathematical wizard who uses logic and computer programming to solve crimes, find treasures, and explore space. Join his team, expand the frontiers of your knowledge, and match wits with him on intriguing cases like "The Virus from the Spy" and "The Secrets of Space" and "The Caribou and the Gas." The puzzles collected here require no formal background beyond arithmetic and elementary algebra—just lively curiosity and keen intelligence. With thirty-six illustrated cases organized around eight major mathematical themes (from Combinatorial Geometry and Geography to Ciphers and Secrecy) this book will encourage you to use your mind and your computer in ways you never previously imagined.
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Interesting puzzles, but who's Dr. Ecco?.......2004-06-12
Presumably, this collection of mathematical puzzles is for fans of one Dr. Ecco whose life is full of adventures. For people not familiar with the character, the book appears very dull and the characters contrived, uninteresting, and, well, kind of lame. The narration is a little over the top, but all in all, the book is not terribly written.
The puzzles on the other hand are pretty interesting. Ranging from solving codes through organizing buildings in space to transporting monkeys, the puzzles are a nice way of teaching mathematical concepts. As the descriptions of the puzzles and Dr. Ecco's solutions thereof progress, the reader is asked to participate on different levels in solving of the puzzles. Cybernovices and cyberexperts can learn about math in a fun way.
I recommend this book for those interested in solving puzzles of any kind who are not detered by corny storylines. If you are not sure whether you'd like this book, I recommend you flip through it at a book store to make sure.
Ecco strikes again.......2003-07-17
As a fan of Ecco's Puzzling Adventures, I was eager to take a look at his cyberpuzzles. Ecco and his protege Shasha have done it again, and I recommend this book to anyone looking for interesting, challenging, thoughtful problems.
The book is a fun and intersting read on its own, but I have also drawn on the book's puzzles in teaching (a course on logic and discrete math).
It's very cool to have a book that can entertain and educate at the same time! Looking forward to Ecco's further adventures.
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From the Publisher Whether you're a programming genius or a logical wizard, this book of puzzles will challenge you well into the night. In the tradition of Sherlock Holmes, Dr. Ecco is one of the greatest sleuths of our time, a mathematical wizard who uses logic and computer programming to solve crimes, find treasures, and explore space. Invented by Dennis E. Shasha, Dr. Ecco first appeared in 1988 as the brilliant mathematical investigator in The Puzzling Adventures of Dr. Ecco, and more recently as the unstumpable gumshoe in Dr. Dobb's Journal. Dr. Ecco's Cyberpuzzles is the latest work to record the exploits and misadventures of this renowned PI. The puzzles collected here require no formal background beyond arithmetic and elementary algebrajust lively curiosity and keen intelligence. With 36 illustrated cases organized around eight major mathematical themes (from "Combinatorial Geometry and Geography" to "Ciphers and Secrecy"), this book will encourage you to use your mind and your computer in ways you never previously imagined. 50 b/w line drawings.
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Book Club Loved it!.......2007-07-24
We chose this book for our book club and EVERYONE LOVED IT! What great insights into the deaf culture.
honest and open.......2006-06-12
Honest, open, and very well written. Authors parents and my parents are long time friends. Although I do not know the author, we probably met as kids. The deaf community is a very close knit group. Deaf parents are very caring and loving. It's a one day, cover to cover read.
Boring.......2006-03-31
I was supposed to read this book for my Sign Language class, but I started the first chapter, and was incredibly bored. This book is slow, and boring.
Candid, Easy Reading.......2006-02-02
I went to high school with Lou Ann. We were not good friends, but I knew her parents were deaf. At that time, I felt that Lou Ann was diligent with her studies and way too mature for us to be friends. I read this book many years ago. I loved the book and knew some of the people she mentioned. I am in a book club now and I am going to recommend this story. I think it is a good read for anyone. Lou Ann was a kind person and I'm sure she has helped many people in the deaf community. Even today, I think there is a great variance in how different members of the deaf community interact with the hearing population.
Honest insight into our world.......2006-01-02
As the oldest child in a family with deaf parents, I can totally relate to what the author went through. I was disturbed by a few of the reviews I read though. People are so quick to judge when they don't have a clue about the world that hearing children of deaf parents live in. I went through all the same experiences that the author did as well as many more. As the oldest child I too was responsible for all the interpreting and basically felt as though I was "raising" my parents instead of the other way around. It is not a fun way to grow up. I found myself annoyed by the reviewer who said they found deaf people to be "fun" and that the author was too dour and negative about the deaf culture. Don't be so quick to judge until you walk in our shoes. The deaf community I was exposed to was not a "fun" one. They were, as a whole, a very distrusting, backstabbing, and gossipy group. I am NOT saying all deaf people are this way! I can only relate what MY personal experiences were. The reviewers who said that it seemed to be the author's own "personality quirks" that made her experience life with deaf parents the way she did don't have a clue either. We are basically products of our upbringing and the life we live as a child. Yes, we can choose as adults to move forward and overcome much of the damage that may have been done, BUT you cannot change who you are nor can you erase the person you are completely. And much of that is formed in childhood, a childhood that is VERY different from mainstream society if you grow up as a hearing child with deaf parents. I suffer from anxiety I believe it is because of the overpowering sense of responsibility I was burdened with as a child, which I cannot seem to shake as an adult and mother of 4. Anyone studying ASL or truly trying to gain insight into the deaf world would definitely benefit from reading this novel.
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Bitter Fruits of Bondage is the late Armstead L. Robinson's magnum opus, a controversial history that explodes orthodoxies on both sides of the historical debate over why the South lost the Civil War.
Recent studies, while conceding the importance of social factors in the unraveling of the Confederacy, still conclude that the South was defeated as a result of its losses on the battlefield, which in turn resulted largely from the superiority of Northern military manpower and industrial resources. Robinson contends that these factors were not decisive, that the process of social change initiated during the birth of Confederate nationalism undermined the social and cultural foundations of the southern way of life built on slavery, igniting class conflict that ultimately sapped white southerners of the will to go on.
In particular, simmering tensions between nonslaveholders and smallholding yeoman farmers on the one hand and wealthy slaveholding planters on the other undermined Confederate solidarity on both the homefront and the battlefield. Through their desire to be free, slaves fanned the flames of discord. Confederate leaders were unable to reconcile political ideology with military realities, and, as a result, they lost control over the important Mississippi River Valley during the first two years of the war. The major Confederate defeats in 1863 at Vicksburg and Missionary Ridge were directly attributable to growing disenchantment based on class conflict over slavery.
Because the antebellum way of life proved unable to adapt successfully to the rigors of war, the South had to fight its struggle for nationhood against mounting odds. By synthesizing the results of unparalleled archival research, Robinson tells the story of how the war and slavery were intertwined, and how internal social conflict undermined the Confederacy in the end.
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A Dedicated Historian's Final Testament.......2005-03-26
The late Armstead Robinson was a gifted, committed scholar. Writing apparently did not come easily to him; his mountain of data, painstaking methods and final illness delayed this book's appearance til after his passing. This long-awaited posthumous revision of his PhD thesis took years to complete, but is worth the wait. A wealth of detail supports his findings on the scope of resistance and internal dissent in the Confederacy. While it is not the last word on this subject, it advances debate in numerous ways. African American participants in the Southern cause mostly contributed under duress, had close social ties to white neighbors or were wealthy slaveowners themselves. This important issue deserves fuller treatment. Black rebels were an interesting phenomenon, but the tiny percentages of willing volunteers made them statistically insignificant, and most of the book focuses on Southern whites anyway. Neo-Confederate reviewers dishonor the memory of a dedicated historian who cannot defend his work against distortions. 25 years ago L. Litwack's "Been In The Storm So Long" revealed slaves' hatred of the Confederacy and welcome of freedom. W. Jordan, "Tumult & Silence at Second Creek" tells how Mississippi planters brutally crushed a major wartime slave conspiracy. W. Freehling, "The South Vs. the South" is a concise survey of divisions in the Confederacy.
Review from New Orleans Times-Picayune, February 20, 2005.......2005-02-21
In 1861, the Washington Artillery left New Orleans to join the Confederacy in Richmond. This elite company, whose ranks included members of some of the Crescent City's most prominent slaveholding families, did not travel alongside other Louisiana volunteers. Instead, they rode to Richmond aboard a special train that "carried a chest of gold donated by doting relatives." In Virginia, they dined separately from poor enlisted men on delicacies prepared by Edouard, a cook borrowed from a fine New Orleans restaurant. "Ah! He was magnifique," unit member William Miller Owen remembered. "His dishes were superb, the object of adoration of all the visitors who did not enjoy the luxury of French cuisine in their own camps."
In "Bitter Fruits of Bondage," Armstead Robinson notes that the members of the Washington Artillery were not alone. Other slaveholders claimed similar privileges. Some also dined in separate mess tents where their slaves prepared meals with ingredients paid for by the mess tents' "members". Many brought personal servants who attended to laundry and other chores. And slaveholders were far more likely to made officers than non-slaveholders. But rather than being "the object of adoration" of those who did not enjoy such perks, the slaveholders' privileges caused dissension. In an army where poor yeoman farmers did most of the fighting, Robinson asserts, the slaveholders' inegalitarian behavior fatefully undermined the army's esprit de corps.
By 1862, according to Robinson, animosity between slaveholders and yeoman increased exponentially. The Confederate congress instituted a draft that exempted overseers on plantations with twenty or more slaves from service. The draft law also allowed wealthy men to buy their way out of the war by paying for a substitute to fight in their stead. Confederate leaders justified these measures by citing the need to maintain order and discipline on plantations. Some planters and overseers, they claimed, needed to man the homefront or chaos would ensue. But many non-slaveholders remained unconvinced. They began to view the conflict as a "rich man's war and a poor man's fight." These yeoman joined up initially, Robinson argues, to defend their homes and because they feared the results of emancipation. But as the war ground on and wealthy planters appeared not to be carrying their share of the burden, many poor farmers began to feel that they had been duped into fighting a slaveholders' war. As class fissures grew, Robinson maintains, support for the Confederacy waned.
"Bitter Fruits of Bondage" is Robinson's magnum opus, a book he had been researching and writing for over twenty years. A legendary figure in the field of African-American Studies, Robinson died unexpectedly in 1995. His widow Mildred brought the unfinished 1,200 page manuscript to the University of Virginia Press. Enlisting the editorial acumen of Barbara Fields, Eugene Genovese, and other leading scholars, the press has now shepherded the project to completion. The result is a compelling book that is sure to spark contentious debates because Robinson rejects the popular notion that the South lost the Civil War only because it lacked the manpower and industrial might of the North. He notes that the colonists in the American Revolution and the Vietnamese who fought the French and the United States in the 20th century persevered despite even greater odds. Instead, he attributes the comparatively swift collapse of the Confederacy to the debilitating effects of slavery and class conflict.
Although Confederate Vice-President Alexander Stephens called slavery "the cornerstone of the Confederacy," Robinson argues that the "peculiar institution" undermined the Confederate war effort from the outset. After Fort Sumter, slaveowners feared that their slaves might view the war as an opportunity to revolt. Rumors of plots and insurrections swirled in Louisiana's Tensas Parish, Mississippi's Jefferson County, and throughout the South. To prevent uprisings, dissident state Governors like Georgia's Joseph Brown refused to turn over weapons seized from federal arsenals to the Confederate government in Richmond and, instead, armed their state militias and slave patrols. As a result, over 200,000 Confederate volunteers had no weapons in the war's early stages. If armed, those men might have allowed Confederate generals to follow the rout at First Bull Run with an invasion of Washington that may have brought the war to an immediate close.
The selfish behavior of individual slaveowners also undermined the war effort. Planters proved reluctant to lend their slaves to the Confederate army. Robinson attributes key defeats in the West, including the fall of Forts Donelson and Henry, to poorly-constructed fortifications that could have been strengthened by slave labor. Reports also circulated that many planters continued to use their land and slaves to grow profitable cash crops like cotton even as food shortages caused women to riot in Richmond and Confederate soldiers to starve. While planters reaped profits, many yeoman found "that they were expected to fight to save slavery and to replace with their own bodies slaveholders and overseers who avoided military service."
As non-slaveholders' disgruntlement grew, Robinson argues, many simply quit fighting. In 1863, Jefferson Davis warned the Confederate Congress that one-third of the army had deserted. Louisiana Governor Henry Allen reported a "terrible state of affairs" noting that there were over 8,000 deserters in the city of Alexandria alone. By September 1864, almost three-fourths of Confederate soldiers were absent without leave. Today, Alabama is called the "Heart of Dixie." But during the Civil War, northern Alabama was roiling with anti-war dissent and was home to secret organizations like the Order of the Heroes of America who met Confederate draft officials with violence. Resistance also flourished in East Texas, East Tennessee, northern Louisiana, Arkansas, and the upcountry of Georgia, the Carolinas, and Mississippi. Many southern yeomen even fought for the Union. An estimated 104,000 white southerners eventually served in the Union Army.
Black southerners also helped bring down the Confederacy. Slaves provided crucial intelligence to Union scouts and spies, sabotaged the work on plantations, and freed themselves by running to northern lines when the federal army drew near. Over 170,000 former slaves donned Union blue and fought against their former masters.
Confederate leaders Robert E. Lee and Jefferson Davis acknowledged the significant contributions African-American soldiers made to the northern war effort. In the desperate, final weeks of the conflict, Robinson notes, the Confederates abandoned their doomed nation's founding principles and made a surreal effort to recruit their own black regiments.
Because "Bitter Fruits of Bondage" was so long in the making, many readers will already be familiar with some of Robinson's central arguments. The important role the slaves played by fleeing to Union lines, for example, is by now an oft-told tale. But there is also much here that is as fresh today as the day it was written. Robinson's forceful prose, meticulous research, and command of the subject, make this an important book. He provides powerful evidence to refute those who argue that all white southerners, slaveholder and non-slaveholder alike, supported the Confederate cause until its last moments. Because of slavery and its discontents, Robinson contends, the Confederacy began to unravel even before the first battle was fought.
Bitterly disappointing work.......2005-02-08
Mr. Robinson's long awaited Bitter Fruits of Bondage, proves to be a bitter pill to swallow. I expected far more than suppositions , guesswork, and mere personal opinion. It truly was a major disapointment. Fortunately the book was loaned to me and I am not out any hard earned money. I give it one star.
Opinions rather than research.......2005-02-08
Robinson contends that the superiority of Northern military manpower and industrial resources were not decisive in the defeat of the South, but that discord between slaves, poor whites, and the planter class was instrumental in its downfall. Pure rubbish, since Southerners of every color went eagerly off to War and fought to the bitter end while the slaves supported the troops in the field by working back home. Even though slave revolts could have brought the South to its knees, none occurred, much to the chagrin of Lincoln who hoped for such when he issued the Emancipation Proclamation. Don't waste your money.
Extremely disappointing Civil War work.......2005-02-06
This long-awaited work proves disappointing to Civil War historians and buffs alike. Robinson contends that the Confederacy lost the war as much through demoralization at home due to the pending demise of slavery rather than the defeat on the battlefield, a supposition which easily collapses under the weight of historical fact. Less than ten percent of the men who fought for the South ever owned a slave, and neither did the vast majority of white southerners. Slavery was not the sole cause of the war and hardly a reason for people who did not own them, and thus were unaffected by either its existence or its demise, to fight in its defense. Taken against the fact that the Confederate government in its last year was willing to free slaves in return for fighting - which would have dismantled slavery, this allegation simply has no basis in reality.
Virginia was the first state to ban the African slave trade and in 1859 the Virginia Legislature very narrowly defeated an amendment that would have ended the "peculiar institution" in that state. When added to the fact that thousands of non-whites (including my grandfather and his Cherokee nation), including free and slave blacks also fought for the Confederacy, Robinson's allegations are unfounded in real history. This book adds nothing to the student's understanding of the war and is based on supposition rather than historical fact.
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Title: Bitter Fruits of Bondage: The Demise of Slavery and the Collapse of the Confederacy, 1861-1865.(A Shattered Nation: The Rise and Fall of the Confederacy, 1861-1868)(Book review)
Author: Jacqueline G. Campbell
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Journal of Southern History (Magazine/Journal)
Date: May 1, 2006
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Volume: 72
Issue: 2
Page: 471(4)
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Title: Glorious dust: the posthumous masterwork of an influential black historian tells how slavery itself undermined the Confederacy.(Bitter Fruits of Bondage: The Demise of Slavery and the Collapse of the Confederacy, 1861-1865 by Armstead L. Robinson)(Viewpoint essay)
Author: Robert Roper
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American Scholar (Magazine/Journal)
Date: January 1, 2007
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Volume: 76
Issue: 1
Page: 89(12)
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Commanders at sea struggle not only with the unpredictability of natural elements, but also with a shroud of uncertainty often referred to as the "fog of war." Over the centuries most admirals yielded to the natural temptation to find in new technologies a means to assert centralized control over their forces. But other commanders have recognized the fog for what it is: a constant level of uncertainty resistant to mere technological solution.
In this grand history of naval warfare, Michael Palmer observes five centuries of dramatic encounters under sail and steam. From reliance on signal flags in the seventeenth century to satellite communications in the twenty-first, admirals looked to the next advance in technology as the one that would allow them to control their forces. But while abilities to communicate improved, Palmer shows how other technologies simultaneously shrank admirals' windows of decision. The result was simple, if not obvious: naval commanders have never had sufficient means or time to direct subordinates in battle.
Successful commanders as distant as Horatio Nelson (1758-1805) and Arleigh Burke (1901-1996) accepted this reality. They sought solutions to the dilemmas of command in the personal indoctrination of subordinates through discussion, comradeship, and displays of trust and confidence. Such leaders created a commonality of vision and fostered a high degree of individual initiative. Their decentralized approach to command resulted in a resiliency that so often provided the key to success in battle.
Palmer's exciting and enlightening history reveals the myriad efforts of naval commanders to navigate the fog of war.
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An excellent account of naval tactics.......2005-03-12
Palmer has writtem an supberb account of the development of naval tactics. According to Palmer there was an debate about whether intiative should be left to individual captains or the commanding admiral. Palmer believes that the British used decentralized tactics effectively against the French who were tied to centralized command during the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Pamler writes that the use of decentralized tactics depended on an educated officer corps since when the French admiral Suffren tried British tactics he failed miserably due to an lack of individual intiative among the French officers. During the First World War, the British adopted centralized tactics and this hampered their performance during the Battle of Jutland. However in the Second World War, the British used decentralized tactics successfully against the Italians. Both the Americans and the Japanese used decentralized tactics during the Pacific War, but the Germans used a centralized approach that left them vulnerable to allied radio interception. The only weakness of this book is that Palmer leaves out the curriculum of naval officer cadet schools and how this influenced the tactical approach of opposing fleets. Nevertheless this book is an excellent account of different types of naval leadership.
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Title: Command at Sea: Naval Command and Control since the Sixteenth Century.(Book review)
Author: Stephen A. Bourque
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Canadian Journal of History (Magazine/Journal)
Date: September 22, 2006
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 41
Issue: 2
Page: 432(2)
Article Type: Book review
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This digital document is an article from The Historian, published by Thomson Gale on September 22, 2006. The length of the article is 512 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
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Title: Command at Sea: Naval Command and Control since the Sixteenth Century.(Book review)
Author: Susan Rose
Publication:
The Historian (Magazine/Journal)
Date: September 22, 2006
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 68
Issue: 3
Page: 661(2)
Article Type: Book review
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- A great book for kids from age 2 to age 80
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A great book for kids from age 2 to age 80.......1998-11-20
The way the author wrote from the perspective of a lonely puffin confused by a poem he heard from a very young age was an interesting twist. I enjoyed how Cid (Sidney L. Cirrhata) helped Al learn how to survive in the real (puffin) world and helped him to discover what it means to be a puffin. My favorite part of this story was at the end, when Alice explains to the worried couple (Al and Cindy) that the fledging of their chick is all a part of the great dance of life. Alice's explanation of the delicate ecosystem they live in is both interesting and informing.
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